Kim Edwards quotes

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell. (Kim Edwards)
You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy. View quote
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He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. View quote
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His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. View quote
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Either things grow and change or they die. View quote
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My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. View quote
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No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart. View quote
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'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. View quote
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She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life. View quote
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It's good to be in love. View quote
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Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. (Kim Edwards)
After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly? View quote
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It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started. View quote
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A moment might be a thousand different things. View quote
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Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. View quote
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This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good. View quote
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You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. View quote
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Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. View quote
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She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight. View quote
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... so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away. View quote
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Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else. (Kim Edwards)
Short on money, long on hope. View quote
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... and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. View quote
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In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her. View quote
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After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. View quote
Kim Edwards

Kim Edwards

Occupation: American Author
Born: May 4, 1958
Quotes count: 33

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